Sheila Walbe Ornstein, Rosaria Ono, P.A. Lopes, A.J.G.L. França, C.Y. Kawakita, Machado, L.V.L. Robles, S.H. Tamashiro and P.R. Fernandes
This paper aims to present the results of a post‐occupancy evaluation (POE) in a complex hospital building, and also to discuss a system for analyzing and diagnosing those results.
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Purpose
This paper aims to present the results of a post‐occupancy evaluation (POE) in a complex hospital building, and also to discuss a system for analyzing and diagnosing those results.
Design/methodology/approach
The POE was aimed at establishing adequate use and maintenance of the building. The main approaches of the study consisted of two basic performance features, namely, physical accessibility and fire safety.
Findings
The importance of the pre‐design evaluation (PDE) might also be recalled as well as the usefulness of the POE for new designs and for remodeling existing buildings, because these instruments aid in the constant updating of directive plans of occupation, especially in the case of large complexes such as health care facilities. One indication of this importance is the relatively low number of problems detected during the POE, when one considers the complexity of the work of renovation and the dimensions of the IPq facilities.
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The paper presents the results of a POE and recommendations that would make it possible to quickly identify the points where there is need for improvement, and the degree of importance or priority to be given.
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Yuhainis Talib, Rebecca Jing Yang and Priyadarsini Rajagopalan
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the main elements of building performance, namely, building function, building impact and building quality in order to promote strategic…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the main elements of building performance, namely, building function, building impact and building quality in order to promote strategic facilities management in healthcare organisation to improve core (health) business activities.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on current available toolkits, a questionnaire is issued to healthcare users (staff) in a public hospital about their level of agreement in relation to these elements. Statistical analysis is conducted to regroup the elements. These regrouped elements and their inter-relationships are used to develop a framework for measuring building performance in healthcare buildings.
Findings
The analysis helped to clarify the understanding and agreement of users in Australian healthcare organisation with regards to building performance. Based on the survey results, 11 new elements were regrouped into three groups. These new regrouped elements will be used to develop a reliable framework for measuring performance of Australian healthcare buildings.
Originality/value
Currently there is no building performance toolkit available for Australian healthcare organisation. The framework developed in this paper will help healthcare organisations with a reliable performance tool for their buildings and this will promote strategic facilities management
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Vinicius Jaques Gerhardt, Julio Cezar Mairesse Siluk, Ismael Cristofer Baierle and Cláudia de Freitas Michelin
The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model composed of performance indicators divided into stages that represent a chronological order of the market development…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model composed of performance indicators divided into stages that represent a chronological order of the market development process.
Design/methodology/approach
The theoretical model presented by this paper was developed based on the information collected through three systematic reviews. The first review identified the steps that segment the market development process. The second and third systematic review sought to identify a set of indicators that are most used in companies' market development.
Findings
The paper develops a theoretical model that identifies the market development indicators that are most present in the current literature, dividing them into stages that represent the chronological order of the market development process.
Originality/value
A research opportunity was identified based on the investigation of the existing literature. The study collaborates with existing research and provides a model that guides companies in market development decisions and actions.
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Ihsan Gunaydin and Ekrem Tatoglu
This paper examines the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Turkey using annual data for the period 1968‐2002, by means of…
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This paper examines the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Turkey using annual data for the period 1968‐2002, by means of cointegration, error‐correction models (ECM) and the augmented vector autoregressive (VAR) methodology developed by Toda and Yamamoto (1995). Johansen (1992) cointegration test results indicate that these two variables are cointegrated. The empirical results from Granger causality tests based on error‐correction models and the augmented level VAR suggest that there is a strong evidence of bi‐directional Granger causality between FDI and economic growth, corroborating the feedback hypothesis for Turkey over the sample period.
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Qingfu Zhang, Jianyong Sun, Edward Tsang and John Ford
This paper introduces a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm (EA) for continuous global optimization problems, called estimation of distribution algorithm with local search (EDA/L)…
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This paper introduces a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm (EA) for continuous global optimization problems, called estimation of distribution algorithm with local search (EDA/L). Like other EAs, EDA/L maintains and improves a population of solutions in the feasible region. Initial candidate solutions are generated by uniform design, these solutions evenly scatter over the feasible solution region. To generate a new population, a marginal histogram model is built based on the global statistical information extracted from the current population and then new solutions are sampled from the model thus built. The incomplete simplex method applies to every new solution generated by uniform design or sampled from the histogram model. Unconstrained optimization by diagonal quadratic approximation applies to several selected resultant solutions of the incomplete simplex method at each generation. We study the effectiveness of main components of EDA/L. The experimental results demonstrate that EDA/L is better than four other recent EAs in terms of the solution quality and the computational cost.